Word: ostankino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suave young man in a red tie and gray pinstripe suit is seen walking through a grove of trees outside Moscow's Ostankino television center. Vladimir Molchanov, 37, host of the late-night television show Before and After Midnight, is opening his monthly broadcast with an elegiac monologue on the passing of summer. By the time Molchanov has entered the studio, oak branch in hand, Soviet viewers have been treated to brisk, taped reports on an Australian stork breeder, a Japanese horseback-riding robot and the world's largest egg. The 90-minute show also features videos from rock stars...
Some Soviet television critics take a measured view of the changes. The only truly fresh idea developed at Ostankino headquarters, they contend, has been the "music-information" program, a formula that has been successfully repeated three times in View, Before and After Midnight and 120 Minutes. Critic Lidiya Polskaya of Literaturnaya Gazeta even suggests that the two national channels should compete with each other to spur greater imagination and innovation. "The workings of Central Television are like a closed black box," she argues. "There is no place for such a monopoly during a period of perestroika. The truth is that...
...Soviets, too, were playing hardball. Authorities at the spanking new Olympic TV center at Ostankino in northern Moscow have told journalists who want to transmit footage back home via the center's facilities that any film will be rejected if it strays even slightly from the subject of sports. The first victim of this policy was Klaus Bednarz, a correspondent for the West German network ARD. His report, titled The Olympics and Propaganda, was turned down flat by officials, so he had to send it by air freight...
...show runs every week, Senkevich and his crew must search the world for new places and faces. The viewers themselves help; the show gets some 2,000 letters a month, most of them suggesting stories. Film Travel Club has only a small staff at the central television studios at Ostankino, in northern Moscow. Most of the reports on Soviet sights are received from Gosteleradio, the official agency handling TV production; stories from abroad are reported by regular Soviet correspondents or are purchased from foreign networks. Occasionally, Senkevich himself travels to spots around the world...